Health

A multidisciplinary team of researchers and scientists at Columbia University will combine their efforts to address the opioid and substance use crisis.

Researchers have drawn on 17 years of data to develop a model that identifies areas in which the tick-borne illness is likely to emerge.

Industrial farming in the temperate climates has been seen as the main cause of nitrogen pollution, but tropical agriculture emissions are catching up.

Campus overdose prevention programs have trained more than 2,500 students, employees and community members to recognize the signs of an emergency and intervene.

Tying personal commitments (like getting more exercise) to goals that benefit the planet create multiple reasons to push ahead.

Studies suggest they may provide some benefit, but what’s out there isn’t conclusive.

'Too often obscured within the beauty of Columbia’s historic Morningside campus is the inherent challenge of accessing buildings constructed a century ago,' said David M. Greenberg, the executive vice president of Facilities and Operations. That's changing.

Columbia faculty and researchers are working with local communities in New York State to dramatically reduce opioid-related deaths.

As the city takes steps to overhaul its water supply network, government and industry must follow suit.

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an adapted excerpt of The First Cell, by Columbia's Dr. Azra Raza, in which she argues that we need to shift our focus from fighting cancer in its last stages to finding the very first cells. 

A Columbia psychiatrist and ethicist addresses the quandaries we face over the changing ways we create children.

While the rate of Eastern Equine Encephalitis is unusually high this year, more worrisome is the link to a warming climate and what it could signal for the future.